In promoting the phase-out of nuclear power, she forced the Greens to look for a new profile they eventually found in the social and financial field, where they failed. She reduced the Social Democrats while agreeing with her handling of the euro crisis to a sideshow with topics like higher minimum wages and lower rents for housing. In embracing all main streams of German politics, Mom Merkel now has the "best image of chancellor" since 1990 but no majority in parliament (Bundestag).
Red-Green-Amber coalition with a majority of 5 votes that would shunt Mom, there remain four other possibilities of deblocking the situation: coalitions of Black-Red and Black-Green, a minority government, or new federal elections. Fearing Mom's deadly kiss, both Greens and Reds hesitate to share the bed with her, but hesitating too long may imply new elections.
Red-Green-Amber coalition with a majority of 5 votes that would shunt Mom, there remain four other possibilities of deblocking the situation: coalitions of Black-Red and Black-Green, a minority government, or new federal elections. Fearing Mom's deadly kiss, both Greens and Reds hesitate to share the bed with her, but hesitating too long may imply new elections.
Recent polls show that in such a case, Mom's CDU will gain even more votes, the SPD will remain stable, and the Greens will lose further, but what is more important is that the anti-euro party AfD (Action for Germany) will get more than 5% of the votes and be presented in the Bundestag.
Looking at the shift of the voters in the recent election suggests that Die Linke will further suffer in a new election from a drain towards the AfD. However, building stable majorities with five instead of four parties in the German Bundestag will become even more complicated, so all parties presently presented fear of a new election as the devil fears holy water.
In the meantime, the round of poker between Black, Red, and Green for forming a coalition government has started and will hopefully enter into horse-trading between the three parties about the number of ministers in Mom's government.
Why not try a Merkel minority government? Without a majority in the Bundestag and with the Bundesrat (Germany's Senate) dominated by Red-Green, Mom would not even have her budget passed. Sounds familiar?
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